It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales weren't made of common sense and logic—they were leaps of faith.” — Heather Long Copy Share Image
The world is full of such tales of fate and coincidence, for that's what we burn into our memories. — Skyrim Copy Share Image
“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“He was beginning to understand how those ridiculous tales had made her a prisoner of others’ expectations.” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling. — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
Learning to accept other's stories, tales, misgivings, etc., will make others more willing to accept yours. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
“In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Each piece of trash that floated here seems to have brought a story with it across the sea, because anything that's been… — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“A story, whether it be novel, short fiction, screenplay, play or poetry or any form of non-fiction, is like an ecosystem in… — Andrew Binks Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
“At first he told them that everything was just the same, that the pink snails were still in the house where he… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you are going to judge a book by its cover, don't be disappointed if the story tells a different tale. — Kos Copy Share Image
“I earn the magic of words by writing. I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
“Remember, when we're lost in a story, we're not passively reading about something that's happening to someone else.” — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
Atanu is one of my favourite directors. His script, style of storytelling and characterisation are always very different. — Prosenjit Chatterjee Copy Share Image
“His pen spoke more to her than he ever did”. In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.” — Nishikant Copy Share Image
I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up. — Megan Boone Copy Share Image
The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“No lies, I thought, but lots of stories. True stories. True lies. Powerful stories, heroic tales, and cautionary fables.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.” — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is a great gift because humanity is a great gift, something God himself delights in.” — Mike Cosper Copy Share Image
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
